Meet Becks & Haddie in SLOW BURN - the
newest stand alone
in the
Driven Series by K. Bromberg!
Reeling
from the sudden loss of her sister, Haddie Montgomery has sworn off
relationships. All she wanted from Beckett Daniels was a sexy distraction to
help her escape her pain for just a little while....There weren’t supposed to
be any strings attached—so why can’t she shake the memory of that unforgettable
night from her thoughts? Or the taste of his kiss from her lips?
No matter
how hard Haddie tries to forget about him, Becks relentlessly tries to prove
that she should start living for today. But she is determined to avoid romantic
commitment, and she can always use her ex-boyfriend’s reappearance to help
snuff out the slow burn within her
that Becks has sparked....
Or will
fate force her to realize that this kind of connection doesn’t come along very
often and a chance at love is worth the risk?
He bites his bottom lip and grimaces. “Fuck!”
He growls out to the trees above him and then rolls his shoulders to dissipate
some of the stress I see settling there. “Semantics aren’t an excuse. An
omission is the same as lying Haddie, but you’re missing the point entirely.
It’s not whether it was a lie or not. It’s so damn far from that. It’s you
using the sex we’ve had to numb yourself when it should do the exact opposite.
It should light your body on fire and burrow so deep under your skin that all
you think about is the next time you can have me…because fuck if that’s not
what you’ve done to me. So I call your bluff. I’ll keep calling it every
fucking day until you admit you want me, that being with me does that to you
too…but you won’t will you?” I just remain still, face impassive, body raging
with emotion beneath the surface. “You’d rather stand there and tell me you
prefer the numb, the void, the nothing, than admit you need me.”
His eyes have their own language as we stare at each
other, the power of his words bringing tears to my eyes and knocking the words
from my lips. “I was just doing what I thought was best, protecting everyone
from more hurt, more everything.” And I
hate the numb, I scream silently. I
hate it so fucking much that every time we touch you make me feel so alive I
realize how dead I’ve felt inside over the past year.
I don’t know why I don’t tell him the rest. Like if
I do then I’m just sealing my fate by Murphy’s fucking Law so I keep quiet.
“Really? That’s all you’ve got for me? Next time
make sure your eyes and your lips match up City because you’re just adding
insult to injury right now. Your refusal to answer is infuriating. Need me Haddie. Use me as your goddamn
emotional punching bag or your real one for that matter but fucking need me.
I’m not some schmuck who’s going to bolt at the first rough patch and the fact
that you still don’t see that is a crock.” He blows out a loud breath, jaw
clenched, anger palpable. “I’m so fucking pissed but I’m also so fucking
mesmerized by you right now and I don’t know what the hell to do or say. All I
know is that protecting someone from the truth is just another way of shutting
them out.”
NOW AVAILABLE
New York Times and USA
Today Bestselling author K. Bromberg is that reserved woman sitting in the
corner who has you all fooled about the wild child inside of her—the one she
lets out every time her fingertips touch the computer keyboard.
K. lives in Southern
California with her husband and three children. When she needs a break from the
daily chaos of her life, you can most likely find her on the treadmill or with
Kindle in hand, devouring the pages of a good, saucy book.
On a whim, K. Bromberg decided to try her hand at this
writing thing. Her debut novels, Driven, Fueled, and Crashed of The Driven
Trilogy were well received and went on to become multi-platform bestsellers as
well as landing on the New York Times and USA Today lists. Her other works
include a short story, UnRaveled, and a companion piece to The Driven Trilogy
titled Raced. She is currently working on three stand alone Driven novels, Slow
Burn, Sweet Ache, and Hard Beat. She also plans to release a novel addressing
the 10 year gap at the ending of Crashed in late fall 2015
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